New Attacks in Algeria Leave 47 People Dead

Attackers have slashed to death 47 people south of the capital, villagers said today, a day after at least 98 people were slaughtered in the worst violence in more than five years.

The terror of recent weeks comes before October municipal elections and flies in the face of assertions by President Liamine Zeroual that he had nearly crushed the Islamic insurgency.

Forty-two people were killed before dawn Friday in the farming village of Maalba, about 120 miles southeast of Algiers, said villagers who fled the region. At the same time, a gang killed five family members in the Frais Vallon neighborhood in the hills above the capital, residents and hospital officials said.

In what was believed to be the worst massacre of the five-year insurgency, villagers and hospital workers reported that at least 98 people and possibly as many as 300 had been killed in Rais, 15 miles south of Algiers, on Thursday night.

Algeria's military Government has insisted that it has the uprising under control. Mr. Zeroual said only a week ago that ''terrorism is living its final hours.''

About 1,500 people have been killed in attacks attributed to Islamic insurgents since early June, when the Government held multiparty elections without the fundamentalists' full participation.